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The Mountbatten family is a British family that originated as a branch of the German princely Battenberg family.The name was adopted by members of the Battenberg family residing in the United Kingdom on 14 July 1917, three days before the British royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor.
The Battenberg family is a non-dynastic cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, which ruled the Grand Duchy of Hesse until 1918. The first member was Countess Julia von Hauke, whose brother-in-law Grand Duke Louis III of Hesse created her Countess of Battenberg in 1851, along with the style of Illustrious Highness (H.Ill.H.), at the time of her morganatic marriage to Grand Duke Louis's ...
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alice was born in Windsor Castle and grew up in the United Kingdom, Germany and Malta. A Hessian princess by birth, she was a member of the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. She was congenitally deaf.
Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887–1969) Queen of Spain,1906 –1931: Alfonso XIII (1886–1941) King of Spain 1886—1931: Constantine I (1868–1923) King of Greece 1913-17 & 1920-22: George VI: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse (1906–1937) Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine (1908–1968) Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885 ...
A great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice of Battenberg, the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse, was born in Windsor Castle in 1885.
Articles relating to the Battenberg family, a morganatic branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt. The founder was Julia, Princess of Battenberg, morganatic wife of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine
The royal family and their most loyal fans have taken some issue with the Netflix smash ahead of ... Princess Alice of Battenberg, who among other things, was deaf and learned to lip read, married ...
He was a prince of Greece and Denmark and his parents were Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. He was exiled from Greece as a child and grew up in France, Germany and Britain.